Heroic Map Pack Images Blowout

On Dec. 11, the Heroic Map Pack will be available on Xbox Live for 800 Microsoft points. Today for your persual, enjoyment and scrutiny we're putting up a hojillion screenshots from the Heroic map pack. There's a bunch here and a bunch more in larger resolutions at the Halo 3 Projects page.

Standoff

A rotating dish looms ominously behind Standoff.

Sweet sweet carnage.

Sans tracking, Rocket Launcher still beats Warthog.

Foundry

Foundry's default set-up.

Hill controlled.

A forged Foundry.

Rat's Nest

A turret can't beat a Hammer, can it?

Inside the Rat's Nest raceway.

One of the previously unseen Rat's Nest interiors.

For a ton more screenshots, click over to the Halo 3 Project page and check out the screenshots gallery. Our previous interview with DLC big bosses Steve Cotton and Christopher Barrett can be read here.

The media visited Bungie last week for a sneak peek and lengthy playsession with the Heroic Map Pack, the fruits of their labor are linked to below (we'll add them as we find them on the Internet):

So, yeah, This week's Double EXP Weekend is running a little behind. I blame Ninja 0n Fire. (He tells me that some fairly large updates are being deployed and as a result, we'll likely not see the Double EXP Weekend go live until tomorrow, or, *gulp* "later").

Anoj didn't submit his latest entry to Comm Chatter, but they gang at HBO picked up the slack. Besides, even without Anoj's familiar wordplay, we all know what this video's about anyway. There's like ten kills. You can submit your own for next week if you're astute enough to figure out how to make it happen.